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Smarter Use of Materials<br />
Ignace Schops<br />
<strong>Tessenderlo</strong> <strong>Group</strong> – 1 MARCH 2011
BIODIVERSITY Matters<br />
• Director - Regionaal Landschap Kempen en Maasland (RLKM)<br />
• International Ambassador Countdown 2010 - IUCN<br />
• ASHOKA fellow – World leading Social Entrepreneur<br />
• Goldman Prize Winner 2008 – Green Nobel Prize<br />
• Vice-President Natuurpunt Flanders<br />
• Honorary Doctor - Doctor Honoris Causa
“(Re)connection Model”, an answer to <strong>the</strong> loss<br />
of biodiversity<br />
Reconnecting biodiversity and society: an interesting opportunity!<br />
(Re)connection Model<br />
• (Re)connect nature with nature<br />
• (Re)connect people with nature<br />
• (Re)connect business with biodiversity<br />
• (Re)connect policy with practice
Regionaal Landschap Kempen en Maasland<br />
Boundless Parks<br />
(Re)connection Model<br />
Biodiversity, an opportunity for<br />
sustainable regional economic<br />
development<br />
Think globally, act locally and<br />
change personally<br />
• Model is used as an example for <strong>the</strong> world by<br />
IUCN<br />
• Collaboration/exchange advice with o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
regions: France, UK, Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands, Germany,<br />
Italy, Latvia, U.S., Cambodia, …
(Re)connecting<br />
Society &<br />
Involving Citizens
Development Cycling network (1995)<br />
(Re)connection Model - Opportunities for economic development<br />
Number of Cyclists 1997-2009 (RLKM)<br />
2009<br />
2008<br />
2007<br />
2006<br />
2005<br />
2004<br />
2003<br />
2002<br />
2001<br />
2000<br />
1999<br />
1998<br />
1997<br />
0 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000<br />
• Cycling network – to create<br />
awareness for biodiversity<br />
• ‘Electronic’ calculation cyclists<br />
• Questionnaires<br />
• Spending behaviour<br />
• RLKM 16.5 million euro each year!<br />
(21.911.000 US$)<br />
•Model Successfully implemented by<br />
‘Toerisme Limburg’ in Limburg<br />
• Province of Limburg 42 million<br />
euro (55.734.000 US$)
Hoge Kempen National Park<br />
A model to save Biodiversity
Hoge Kempen National Park<br />
Opportunities for sustainable economic development - From NIMBY to PIMBY<br />
Features Hoge Kempen National Park<br />
• national park = 6.000ha<br />
• “project” National Park = 25.000ha<br />
• 6 municipalities<br />
• over 6.000 species<br />
• high quality sustainable tourist infrastructure<br />
• 5 local gateways + 1 main gateway<br />
• total investment > 120.000.000 euro<br />
(160.000.000 US$)<br />
Benefits<br />
• extra awareness for biodiversity<br />
• species action plans<br />
• annual amount of visitors: ~ 700.000<br />
• employment (direct & indirect): 400<br />
• annual economic benefit: 20.000.000 euro<br />
(26.559.000 US$)
Impact
A Global view …<br />
<strong>Tessenderlo</strong> <strong>Group</strong> …<br />
Bringing Chemistry alive!?<br />
Change management<br />
A story
A Global view<br />
CO2 Concentration (ppm)<br />
400<br />
380<br />
360<br />
340<br />
CO2 concentration (ppm)<br />
• Global CO2 concentration is increasing<br />
very fast<br />
• Currently up to 380 ppm<br />
• Climate Change is a global problem<br />
320<br />
300<br />
280<br />
1954 1969 1983 1998 2012<br />
Source: Keeling and Whorf, 2005.
A Global view<br />
Global Surface Temperature (°C) 1860-2000<br />
Global Surface Temperature (°C)<br />
• Increasing temperatures since 1970<br />
• In 2000 GST increased to +/- 1°C<br />
• Estimation: increase GST of 3,5°C
A Global view – Something wrong?<br />
Some examples<br />
• Australia: drought – annual shortage of 231<br />
billion litres of water – 15 million US$ a year<br />
• Greenland: annual loss of ice: 200 km³<br />
• Germany: flood Elbe river: 2,7 billion US$<br />
• United States:<br />
• Hurricane Katrina 2007: 90 billion US$<br />
- 1836 people died<br />
• …
A Global view<br />
Natural disasters reported
A Global view<br />
Quadruple Squeeze<br />
Human Growth<br />
20/80 dilemma<br />
80% of <strong>the</strong> population have to<br />
bare <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong> consequenses<br />
caused by 20% of <strong>the</strong> population<br />
Climate<br />
350/450/550 dilemma<br />
Ecosystems<br />
60% loss dilemma<br />
Surprise<br />
Unexpected with a large impact –<br />
hurricanes, tsunami’s, earthquakes, …<br />
© Stockholm University / Johan Rockström
A Global view<br />
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)<br />
IPCC - 3th report – 2001<br />
IPCC - 4th report – 2007<br />
• Melting glaciers in<br />
22 century<br />
• More hurricanes in <strong>the</strong> Gulf of<br />
Mexico in <strong>the</strong><br />
22 century<br />
• Artic Ice-free in 22 century<br />
• 60% of all glaciers will melt in<br />
30-50 years<br />
• Double amount of severe<br />
hurricanes (3/4/5)<br />
• Artic Ice-free in summer in 20<br />
years
People are responsible for Climate<br />
Change …
So what …?
Charles Darwin<br />
12/2/1809 - 19/4/1882<br />
On <strong>the</strong> Origin of species by means of<br />
natural selection - 1859
The Sixth Extinction<br />
How many species are we losing?<br />
• We don’t exactly know<br />
• Recently <strong>the</strong> rate of extinction increases rapidly due to human<br />
behaviour<br />
• Biodiversity loss can not be halted<br />
• New species are discovered all <strong>the</strong> time<br />
• Panama<br />
• So, if we don’t know how much <strong>the</strong>re is to begin<br />
with, we don’t know exactly how much we’re losing
What we do know?<br />
• We do have lots of facts and figures that seem to<br />
indicate that <strong>the</strong> news isn’t good<br />
• The rapid loss of species we are seeing today is<br />
estimated by experts to be between 1,000 and 10,000<br />
times higher than <strong>the</strong> natural extinction rate<br />
• Worlds experts calculate that between 0.01 and<br />
0.1% of all species will become extinct each year
How many species are we losing?<br />
Low estimate<br />
Amount species: ~ 2.000.000<br />
• Extinction Rate: 0,01 – 0,1<br />
• 200 – 2.000 extinctions/year<br />
• 0,5 – 5,4 extinctions each day<br />
High estimate<br />
Amount of species: ~ 100.000.000<br />
• Extinction Rate: 0,01 – 0,1<br />
• 10.000 – 100.000 extinctions/year<br />
• 27 – 274 extinctions each day
A global view – red list<br />
Red list of <strong>the</strong> International Union for <strong>the</strong> Conservation of Nature<br />
Red List of Threatened Species<br />
documents <strong>the</strong> extinction risk of 47.677<br />
species.<br />
Threatened with extinction:<br />
• 1 bird out of 8<br />
• 1 mammal out of 4<br />
• 1 conifer out of 4<br />
• 1 amphibian out of 3<br />
• 6 marine turtles out of 7<br />
Biodiversity loss is high!<br />
• This biodiversity loss has grim<br />
consequences for humanity<br />
• Over 1,1 billion people are directly<br />
threatened by <strong>the</strong> loss of fish stock<br />
• …
Working on a sustainable world
EU – Policy – Natura 2000 network<br />
Awareness of <strong>the</strong> Natura 2000 network (%)<br />
Don't know/no answer<br />
1<br />
1<br />
Never heard of it<br />
78<br />
80<br />
Heard of it and does not know what it is<br />
13<br />
12<br />
2010<br />
2007<br />
Heard of it and knows what it is<br />
8<br />
6<br />
0 20 40 60 80<br />
Source: EU – Flash Eurobarometer N° 290
Most important EU issues (%) - EU 27 (2009)<br />
Unimployment<br />
9<br />
9<br />
8<br />
7 5 4 4<br />
32<br />
51<br />
Economic situation<br />
Crime<br />
Rising Prices/inflation<br />
Heathcare system<br />
Immigration<br />
Pensions<br />
Taxation<br />
14<br />
19<br />
19<br />
40<br />
Educational System<br />
Housing<br />
Terrorism<br />
Environment<br />
Energy<br />
Source: EU - Standard Eurobarometer N° 72<br />
Defence/Foreign affairs
COP 10 - Nagoya, Japan<br />
&<br />
COP 16 – Cancun, Mexico<br />
Integration, integration, integration<br />
&<br />
Impementation, Implementation,<br />
Implementation
2011-2020 – decade of biodiversity
Smarter use of recourses
Sustainable development<br />
People<br />
Profit<br />
People<br />
Planet<br />
Profit<br />
Planet<br />
Equivalent Planet = Pillar
Ecosystem Services
TEEB – report<br />
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity<br />
• ~ Biodiversity loss costs approximately 50 Billion euro in 2010 (EU)
Natural Capital and poverty reduction<br />
Ecosystem services<br />
dependency<br />
Indonesia India Brazil<br />
99 million 352 million 20 million<br />
Ecosystem services as a<br />
% of classical GDP<br />
(Gross Domestic Product)<br />
79%<br />
21%<br />
84%<br />
16%<br />
90%<br />
10%<br />
11%<br />
Ecosystem services as a<br />
% of “GDP of <strong>the</strong> Poor”<br />
75%<br />
25%<br />
53%<br />
47%<br />
89%<br />
Ecosystem services<br />
Source: Gundimeda and Sukhdev, D1 TEEB
Finding new solutions …
Do you know this ?<br />
Meat flavored water … “Walk, don't run and<br />
brush your teeth before you go to bed. By<br />
drinking Meatwater you can cut down on<br />
exercising and eating time, and have more<br />
time to enjoy yourself.”
Utopia forerver: visions of architecture and urbanism/<br />
John Wardle & Stefano Boscutti
Finding solutions …<br />
- Electric Cars<br />
- Smart grids<br />
- Solar Panels<br />
- Wind turbines<br />
- C2C<br />
- Waste management<br />
- Veggie Days<br />
- …<br />
- Yes we can?
Look into <strong>the</strong> past to see <strong>the</strong> future?<br />
• Historically, everything was totally sustainable<br />
• Before metals, wood was used in almost all applications<br />
• Use – reuse – recycle – biodegrade<br />
• There was no problem – no waste!<br />
• Industrial revolution<br />
• New industries became a critical issue<br />
• Growing population – growing cities<br />
• Growing global impact of our behaviour<br />
• Fossil fuels/ …<br />
• No guidance, no policy Waste was waste of time and money<br />
• Nobody cares!<br />
• … 1972 - Limits to growth – Club of Rome<br />
• New evolution based on sustainability<br />
• 21 st century … Starting a New Era: Climate, Biodiversity and Energy Era<br />
• Business sector as part of <strong>the</strong> solution<br />
• (Re)connection Model<br />
• A sustainable business case<br />
• Finding sustainable solutions for <strong>the</strong> future<br />
• Corporate Social Responsibility<br />
• Supporting global goals
Sustainable use of resources:<br />
it’s (y)our responsibility<br />
• Minerals/virgin materials are NOT inexhaustible!<br />
• A shortage of minerals/virgin materials/… is yet to come (!)<br />
• Precautionary principle<br />
• Only use of virgin materials/minerals when no o<strong>the</strong>r solution is found<br />
• [scarcity leads to creativity]<br />
• Footprint transparency<br />
• Global goals/plant goals/…<br />
• Measuring impact<br />
• Finding new solutions – task for everyone<br />
• Clean Technologies<br />
• Cradle to Cradle<br />
• Recycling waste<br />
• …
Global footprint<br />
Footprint<br />
Understanding <strong>the</strong><br />
<strong>Tessenderlo</strong> <strong>Group</strong><br />
Footprint is <strong>the</strong> first<br />
step in reducing it.
A business case as a solution?<br />
Some conditions<br />
• Green hawks!<br />
• Thomas Friedman (Columnist New York Times)<br />
• Book: Hot, Flat and Crowded<br />
• SMART-ER Principle<br />
• Footprint<br />
• Transparency
SMART-ER Principle<br />
SMART-ER PRINCIPLE<br />
• Specific<br />
• Measurable<br />
• Achievable<br />
• Realistic<br />
• Time-Bound<br />
• Evaluable<br />
• Re-evaluable
Become <strong>the</strong> world champion in your niche?<br />
Use <strong>the</strong> strongest legislation as guideline<br />
- In <strong>the</strong> EU almost everything is forbidden, except <strong>the</strong> things who are<br />
allowed<br />
- In China almost everything is allowed, except <strong>the</strong> forbidden things<br />
- In Russia, everything is allowed what is strongly forbidden<br />
Make up your mind! <br />
Environmental EU-legislation as basis for global<br />
development - Advantage for <strong>the</strong> future<br />
Added value for society // biodiversity<br />
Disseminate <strong>the</strong> results
Conclusions<br />
• The world is in change<br />
• Climate change and biodiversity are twins!<br />
• It’s about us!<br />
• Responsibility !<br />
• Virgin materials are not inexhaustible!<br />
• Task = Finding new sustainable solutions<br />
• Building bridges: “(Re)connect business with sustainable goals”<br />
• A sustainable business case for <strong>the</strong> future<br />
• SMART-ER principle<br />
• Incorporate <strong>the</strong> Global strongest legal conditions in your own business<br />
case<br />
• Let’s be confident!
Have a<br />
dream
Mind our footprint!
Be Smart
Details<br />
matter
Create a<br />
network
Lighten up!
Make some hot links
Be sure<br />
<strong>the</strong>re’s<br />
backup
Stick toge<strong>the</strong>r,<br />
lobby &<br />
communicate
Be ready to<br />
fly off
Always<br />
hang on
Keep on having a good<br />
position …
Problems?<br />
See it form<br />
a different<br />
point of<br />
view
Toge<strong>the</strong>r we will<br />
succeed!
But know… The value of nature is<br />
<strong>the</strong> value “people” give …
It’s up to ourselves & <strong>the</strong> future<br />
generations …!
Dream your<br />
dream…